I'd actually heard about cellist Matt Brubeck more in the context of his work teaching at York University than as a performer, so this was the first time I'd ever caught him in action. In this trio, Brubeck could sometimes pull the tone from "jazzy" to "compositional" depending on whether he was plucking or bowing his cello's strings, but there was generally an even-handed exchange with pianist Marilyn Lerner and drummer Nick Fraser. Word is there's a new album coming soon to follow up on their first disc from a few years ago.

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Founded as a blog about one curmudgeon's love affair with the em dash, Mechanical Forest Sound has grown to become a community-based archive of local musical culture. Assuming that "independent music" isn't just boys with guitars and "culture" isn't just some sort of pageant, MFS is an investigation of a wide range of artists, reflecting on concerts as shared experiences, acts of citizenship and a chance to get down — fuzzy photographs and clear-sounding original live recordings a specialty.

Current manifestations of this project include Track Could Bend, a monthly concert series featuring "improvised music and weird rock offshoots", presented in a casual environment.

At one point I wrote full-on concert reviews, and for longer I thought I would catch up and write about shows in the past. But these days, because of, y'know, life, do not expect much in the way of full show reviews — but live recordings with blurbs will be posted as quickly after the fact as is feasible.

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